. A history of hand-made lace : dealing with the origin of lace, the growth of the great lace centres, the mode of manufacture, the methods of distinguishing and the care of various kinds of lace . and A DICTIONARY OF LACE. 123 plaited together ; instead of the pillow bobbins and pins with which pillow lace isnow made, the hands were used, each finger serving as a peg. Occasionally thehands of three or four assistants were required to furnish sufficient pegs for a broadborder. In the middle of the seventeenth century, the best period for bobbin asfor all other laces, it was made as follows, an
. A history of hand-made lace : dealing with the origin of lace, the growth of the great lace centres, the mode of manufacture, the methods of distinguishing and the care of various kinds of lace . and A DICTIONARY OF LACE. 123 plaited together ; instead of the pillow bobbins and pins with which pillow lace isnow made, the hands were used, each finger serving as a peg. Occasionally thehands of three or four assistants were required to furnish sufficient pegs for a broadborder. In the middle of the seventeenth century, the best period for bobbin asfor all other laces, it was made as follows, and the methods have changed butlittle :—A pattern was first drawn upon a piece of paper or parchment, then prickedwith holes. Great skill was required for this process, as a pricker must determinewhere the principal pins should be stuck for guiding the threads. The prickedpattern was then placed upon the cushion. (This pillow varies in shape and sizein different countries, or with the taste of the individual worker, some using acircular pad backed with a flat board, in order that it may be placed upon a tableand easily moved as the worker may wish, while others use a well-stuffed bolster,. Bobbin Lace, 2i inches wide, made in Mechlin, Belgium ; late eighteenth century. Thesprigs are made separately from the rcseau, into which they are afterwards worked. short and flattened at both ends.) On the upper part of the pattern were fastenedthe ends of the threads unwound from the bobbins, which thus hung across thepillow. These bobbins were thrown and twisted with regulated precision, in orderto form the fabric of the ground and pattern. Bobbin lace is constantly made according to the patterns of needle point laces;in the seventeenth century especially, the points of Venice were extensivelyreproduced. The bobbin lace of Buckinghamshire has been celebrated in Englandever since the eighteenth century. The most used edging bore the name of trolly, from Trolle Kant, or sampler lace, sent
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